To pass the time the lady offers to tell Robert some stories – but they are stories that are quite frightening. Then Robert notices that the train has stopped – at the mouth of a tunnel! When he wakes up all is quiet and the other passengers are sleeping and a young woman all dressed in white with red hair is now sitting opposite him and she is wide awake. There are four other travellers in his carriage and Robert soon drifts off to sleep.
Robert is a bit embarrassed by all this and insists on getting on the train. His step-mother takes him to the station and she has a little dream that something scary will happen to him at the tunnel’s mouth. Set in England during the Boer War, Young Robert is travelling to boarding school by himself. This is the second ‘Tales of’ book I have read by Chris Priestly, and once again I was deliciously scared! Priestly is a master of telling chilling stories, and a trip down the hall to the powder room at night is no picnic after reading one of the macabre tales. Priestley has also written for radio, contributing two stories to the BBC Radio 2 It's Grimm Up North collection of Brothers Grimm updates, transmitted on Christmas Eve 2012.Opening Sentence: ‘…It was the first railway journey I had ever made alone…’ Mister Creecher won the BASH (Book Award St Helens) in 2012. Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth won the Dracula Society Children of the Night Award in 2009. The German translation of Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror was shortlisted for a Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2011. Tales of Terror from the Black Ship won a CPNB Vlag and Wimpel in 2010 for the Dutch translation.
In 2004, Death and the Arrow was shortlisted for an Edgar Award in the US, and in 2006, Redwulf's Curse won the Lancashire Fantastic Book Award. In 2000 he published his first children's book, Dog Magic.
His paintings have been widely exhibited, most recently at the Eastern Open and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, both in 2013. From 1990 to 1996 he was a weekly cartoonist on The Economist, and from 1996 to 1998 a daily cartoonist on The Independent. He has produced several strip cartoons - Bestiary for The Independent on Sunday (with Chris Riddell), Babel for The Observer, 7:30 for 8:0 for The Independent and Payne’s Grey for the New Statesman. He also worked briefly as a poster designer for the Royal Court Theatre and others. He worked as an illustrator for a wide range of clients and his work appeared regularly in The Times, The Listener and The Observer. In 1976, after spending his teens in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he left to study illustration at Manchester Polytechnic, leaving in 1980 to freelance in London. Biography and career Ĭhris Priestley grew up in Wales and Gibraltar, where as a nine-year-old, he won a medal in a local newspaper's story-writing competition. Chris Priestley (born 1958) is a British children's book author and illustrator.
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